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> If you believe that this is true, why should it stop with just the internet? Why not all of life? It is true of "all of life" but the social dynamics (couple
by rosser 8y ago
> If you believe that this is true, why should it stop with just the internet? Why not all of life?
It is true of "all of life" but the social dynamics (coupled with bog-standard H. sapiens cognitive foibles) in play when you aren't interacting with a "real person", but merely a name on a screen, empowers the bad/ignorant actors far moreso than it does the good/rational ones.
Even the most reprehensible forum troll knows that if he behaved that way to someone's face, he'd get punched.
- eli_gottlieb 8y ago>Even the most reprehensible forum troll knows that if he behaved that way to someone's face, he'd get punched. Honestly, in my experience, this isn't true. "Troll"-type demonstrators and protesters behave like, well, trolls to people's face all the time, and it's generally considered part of Good Public Decorum and Free Speech not to punch them.